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Hello, Insiders! As we continue to move our way up the ever-increasing number of versions we release, there’s a few things getting shifted around this week. Some are expected, one is getting merged, and we’re moving a couple up to Planned! Let’s jump into it.
As we work on this item, Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge is being moved from March to Planned for May. This is a feature that is available to some of those using Canary or Dev, but it’s currently not available for everyone.
On the same subject as tabs, we are merging the Users can organize Vertical Tabs into groups item into Users can find and manage their tabs more easily by organizing them into associated groups. After an internal discussion, the team confirmed that both vertical and horizontal tabs are being considered in this latter grouping item. More tabs news: Both Users can easily close Vertical Tabs and Hide or shrink the title bar when vertical tabs are enabled are moving from Under Review to Planned!
In other feature spaces this week, we’re updating Allow users to turn off the “Disable developer mode extensions” notification from Planned to March to Planned for May.
Next week is the last week of April and we expect to see Edge 92 move into the Dev channel while Edge 91 moves into our Beta channel. Items appear on this list based on the feedback users like yourselves send us. Want something on this list? Submit your suggestions directly through the browser via the … menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback so the team can consider your feedback.
We’ll be back with the latest updates next week!
Here’s this week’s updated list:
Status
Feedback
On this list for
Planned for April
Allow more top sites on the New Tab Page
59 weeks
Planned for April
Provide an option to prevent auto-play of video and audio when you open a website
87 weeks
Planned for May
Users can find and manage their tabs more easily by organizing them into associated groups
11 weeks
Planned for May
Allow users to turn off the “Disable developer mode extensions” notification
19 weeks
Planned for May
Users can get back to where they left off in PDF documents
Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge
47 weeks
And here’s the list of top “quality areas” that we’re actively working on in response to your feedback:
Bring more extensions to the extensions store
Edge should use less memory than it does
Edge should use less CPU than it does
Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages
Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files
Opening a new tab is too slow
Update does not always work reliably
Definitions:
Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels.
Not Planned – We don’t currently plan to address this feedback, though we will continue to track it and reconsider our approach if needed.
Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated.
Planned - We have reviewed this feedback and have a plan to address it. However, we aren't ready to share a target time frame just yet.
Alternative Planned - We don’t currently plan to directly address this feedback; however, we are working on addressing this in the form of a new feature.
In Discussion – We’ve reviewed this feedback and to learn more we have started a discussion about it here in the Microsoft Edge Insider Forum.
Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time.
Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks.
Thanks for the update, I'm gonna guess that the feature you are considering for managing vertical tabs, horizontal tabs, tab groups etc. is Workspaces 🙂
@MissyQ I have have always been a not-so Microsoft fan, all the way back from the OS/2 days. However, I find that Edge has become my everyday browser on my Gentoo Linux systems along with Visual Code Studio and MS Teams. Times sure have changed .... Thanks for all the good work!
@MissyQ Thanks, good to see Edge has progressed since I last checked it out. It took only 2 years for the Prompt to Close All Tabs option to be added, but better late than never. Hopefully by 2023 or so we can have the Don't Close Window with Last Tab option added as well so that we don't have to rely on kludgy add-ons or other Chromium-based alternatives. 😕
What do they mean when they are referring to tab previews the pinned state or the hovering state. I still want both.
I also think that vertical tabs would work better pinned rather than hovering. For pinned tabs I envision the tab being underneath the link title similar to how I invasion Microsoft doing the page previews for the table of contents for PDF
I'm not a fan of the new tab action menu even though your post has made it more clear what they are trying to do I just don't find it all that necessary when you can right-click to enable these features or to long-press on the tab x or the back arrow to see some of the previous tabs or pages
Hi all I have big problems with Translator Bing does not work well, problems because it is too big fond and you can not see the whole content at the same time it is very cumbersome, I'm logged into Bing and I have to confirm after all that I'm not a robot - it's very cumbersome and really bothering
Previously it was definitely better do not know why it changed is difficult to translate without seeing all the written content
@ethanmenzel wrote: I'm not a fan of the new tab action menu even though your post has made it more clear what they are trying to do I just don't find it all that necessary when you can right-click to enable these features or to long-press on the tab x or the back arrow to see some of the previous tabs or pages
Okay you can use the feedback button on Edge to share your feedback.
I'm on the Canary build of Microsoft Edge on Windows and I think they took my advice or just removed it for the time being because it isn't anywhere in Edge anymore which is great because I didn't like it at all.
